For the past two months, I’ve made a radical change to my morning routine. I started getting up nearly two hours earlier than I was before, committing that time mostly to journaling and working on my (for now) fledgling software business. This has worked extremely well so far. Besides the…

Note: This is going to be personal, about my health needs. If you’re looking for the usual fluffy marketing porn, you might want to look elsewhere. If you’re considering getting an Apple Watch because you need to make real change in your health and think it might help, read on. …

Here’s a little exercise I use pretty regularly when journaling, especially when I need to kickstart my priorities for the day. I don’t remember where I picked it up, but it’s very useful, for me anyway. Visualize (and write down) what you will be doing in: Five years; four months…

Over the past month, I’ve made a quite successful effort to shift my sleep schedule to buy myself a couple of hours to myself, before dayjob obligations start. I realized long ago that my first couple of hours of the day were usually when my mind is sharpest, and why…

As I’ve written previously, I’m in the midst of an experiment to drastically change my personal habits. One of the habits I’m trying to achieve is publish every day. Write something of substance and put it out on the internet. And, from David Kadavy’s advice in How to Write a…

I follow a few daily content email lists, each with varying degrees of trying to sell me something. The three that I read every day are Daily Stoic (Ryan Holiday), Seth Godin, and Heather Cox Richardson. I like the content from Daily Stoic and it often gives me a lot…

“I may be wrong; I am often wrong” is something of a mantra for me. I say it out loud almost every day, in conversation with co-workers and friends. And I say it privately to myself even more often. It’s a caution to others. In my work, I speak in…